As police continue to investigate, family members are making a desperate plea, hoping someone will step forward.

"I was in love with that little girl. She was my heart," said the victim's mother, Belinda Carter, who said she will never forget the heartbreak she felt on Feb. 9. "They took my baby away from me. I've got to live with this the rest of my life."

What's even more horrifying to the family is how Dominique Bryant was gunned down outside her apartment on 22nd and Magazine streets.

"They shot her eight times in her head, four times in her forehead and numerous times in her body. You know, if that was just a robbery or something, they would have got less bullets in her, but they made sure she was dead," said Carter. "I saw my daughter there, I saw her. Do you know how traumatic that is for a mother to see her child there, and I can't go hold her?"

What provoked anyone to kill the 30-year-old mother is still a mystery that the family is desperately trying to figure out.

"Whoever did this, they were waiting on her or they followed her," said Bryant's aunt, Crystal Carter Thorton.

Their only clue was something Dominique mentioned a couple weeks before she was killed.

"She said she had somebody bothering her but she wouldn't tell me," said Carter.

So the family is relying on others.

"Somebody has to know something and somebody has to have seen something," said Thorton.

Finding out who killed the woman and why is crucial for the family because they say it will bring them closure, even though they know it won't bring back Dominique.

"And now there is no going back. You can't say it again. You always say I'll call her tomorrow but now there is no more tomorrow," said Bryant's cousin Artimeshia Mitchell.

An urn is now all that's left of a woman described as beautiful, strong and kind. For her family, it's a daily reminder that the search for Dominique's killer is far from over.

"You can run but you can't hide. Whoever you are, you're not going to hide from the Lord," said Carter.

Bryant leaves behind an 11-year-old daughter.

Police are questioning a few people right now, but no arrests have been made.

Anyone with information should call the anonymous police tip line at 502-574-LMPD.